JJ Abrams is a Hollywood writer, director and producer responsible for hits like Lost, Alias, Felicity, Mission Impossible III, Armageddon, Regarding Henry and Cloverfield, to name a few. He's won two Emmy's and a Golden Globe. He is the...
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JJ Abrams is a Hollywood writer, director and producer responsible for hits like Lost, Alias, Felicity, Mission Impossible III, Armageddon, Regarding Henry and Cloverfield, to name a few. He's won two Emmy's and a Golden Globe. He is the founder of Bad Robot Productions.
One of the crew members of the USS Enterprise seems to think the ship will be set for its sequel voyage with production beginning around this time next year.
Zoe Saldana, who plays crew member Uhura, recently spoke with MTV and revealed that the sequel Star Trek 2 will start coming together next year.
“I spoke to J.J. and Bryan Burk, his producing partner at Bad Robot, and they are still in the middle of building the script with Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, and we’ll probably be going... Read Full Story
A new teaser site and twitter has been set up for the new series, Undercovers , being developed by JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot banner for NBC. The series plans to be a mix between the Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith . The show has already casted Boris Kodjoe as the male lead in the series as well as Gerald McRaney who will play the CIA handler for the couple. JJ Abrams plans to shepherd the series by directing its pilot episode . NBC has high hopes for the show winning a lucrative... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel "Let the Great World Spin" is on its way to a movie deal. J.J. Abrams is working out a rights deal to spin a feature from McCann's sprawling period piece. Abrams would produce -- with McCann adapting the screenplay -- at Paramount, where his Bad Robot production company resides. "Spin," McCann's fifth novel, was published in June by Random House. Built around Philippe Petit's real-life "artistic crime of the... Read Full Story
J.J. Abrams is negotiating to produce an adaptation of Colum McCann’s period novel Let the Great World Spin. Built around Philippe Petit’s real-life “artistic crime of the century” where the Frenchman illegally walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers in August 1974. The film and story Let the Great World Spin follows an ensemble cast of characters struggling throughout New York amidst that historic event.
McCann’s fifth novel was published in June by Random House... Read Full Story
J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot have acquired the rights to Let the Great World Spin , which won author Colum McCann the National Book Award last month. The judges for that award said McCann's work is "an ecstatic vision of the human courage required to stay aloft above the ever-yawning abyss," and USA Today summarized the novel as "a portrait of a decaying 1974 New York."
It's a book with many individual stories, and the connecting thread is more of a wire. In fact, that's exactly what it is... Read Full Story
J.J. Abrams, a writer, director and executive producer, ( & cute guy, ) of the hit television shows “Lost” and “Alias” as well as director of the latest “Star Trek” movie, is going to produce, direct and co-write the screen play of Colum(cute guy) McCann’s novel “Let the Great World Spin”. More more on Colm on aindreas.com. He’s a great writer, won the U.S. National Book award for the same book recently. Both will head to … somewhere quiet to write the screenplay.
Should make a great... Read Full Story
Frederator Films blog (via Firstshowing ) had an article earlier this week regarding Samurai Jack, the popular series from Cartoon Network. According to the article there was plans for an animated feature for the film as well as a live-action version. The rights were then in the hands of New Line Cinema. Now it seems as if they have landed into the nice well kept hands of JJ Abrams. Abrams is apparently developing a feature animated movie that will combine traditional 2D animation with... Read Full Story
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Allan Ford 1 December, 2009
J.J. Abrams , and Bad Robot are co-producing the popular Cartoon Network cartoon “ Samurai Jack “
Samurai Jack was a four-time Emmy award winning animated series that ran on Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2004 and followed the adventures of the lone warrior Jack in his quest to find a way to go back in time. In his journey, he faced all manner of robotic and alien... Read Full Story
So this has been rumored for sometime that Lost co-creator, Damon Lindelof, would develop the acclaimed fantasy series from Steven King. Now its coming out that he and his partner in crime, JJ Abrams, will not be adapting the acclaimed series.
In a story from MTV.com , Abrams had to say on the matter:
“ The Dark Tower thing is tricky. It’s such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now.”
In an in interview with USA Today in... Read Full Story
